History Quote by Nicholson Baker

“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- because of…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem,…

— Tobias Wolff

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English…

— George Orwell

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a…

— Derek Walcott

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English…

— George Orwell

Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet.…

— Gene Weingarten

Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like…

— Gregory Orr

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

— Gene Weingarten

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

— Stephane Mallarme

“Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time.”

— Martin Amis